"House majority leader
Eric Cantor is increasingly frustrated with a group of House Republicans
who are working against the leadership, and he’s not afraid of voicing
his dismay.

In a closed-door conference meeting on Wednesday, Cantor told one GOP
member that if they blocked the Senate-passed Violence Against Women
Act (VAWA) from coming to the floor, they’d cause “civil war” in the
ranks.

Cantor’s comment irked some Republican aides, who told National Review Online
that such strong language is inappropriate. In recent days, some
conservatives have been upset about the Senate’s version of VAWA, saying
that parts of the bill are unconstitutional.Nevertheless, Cantor’s warning may have had an effect. When the bill
came to the floor on Wednesday, only nine Republicans voted against the
rule to take up the bill.

Tensions between backbenchers and the leadership, however, are
evident. Behind the scenes, House Republicans voiced their concerns
about VAWA throughout the day. Eventually, though, the rule passed,
414–9, and the House plans a final vote on the Senate’s version of VAWA
on Thursday.

"The looming budget sequestration will make Americans less safe, Eric
Holder says—and anyone who says otherwise isn't telling the truth.

"This is something that is going to have an impact on the safety of this
country," the U.S. attorney general told ABC's Pierre Thomas on
Wednesday in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview.

"And anybody that says otherwise is either lying or saying something that runs contrary to the facts," Holder said.

In his interview with ABC News, Holder reiterated warnings that if
automatic spending cuts are triggered on Friday, the Justice Department
will be handicapped in some of its most vital missions to prevent
terrorist attacks and crime.

"The Justice Department is going >to lose nine percent of its budget
between now and September 30th. We're going to lose $1.6 billion. There
are not going to be as many FBI agents, ATF agents, DEA agents,
prosecutors who are going to be able to do their jobs," Holder said.

"They're going to be furloughed. They're going to spend time out of their offices, not doing their jobs."

President Obama's Cabinet members have been warning for weeks that
budget sequestration, which will begin Friday unless Obama and
Republicans reach a deficit-reduction deal to avoid it, will leave their
agencies shorthanded and could bring about disastrous consequences.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood have both appeared at the White House press
briefing room to warn that furloughs for border-patrol agents, TSA
agents and air-traffic controllers will mean weakened border and port
security, longer waits in airport security lines, and logjammed air
travel.

Holder, for his part, warned in a Feb. 1 letter to the Senate
Appropriations Committee that cuts to the FBI, the ATF, the U.S.
Marshals Service, and U.S. Attorneys would limit the department's
capacity to investigate crimes. Cuts at the Bureau of Prisons, Holder
wrote, would mean lockdowns and potential violence, with fewer staff
members on hand.

In a separate letter, FBI Director Robert Mueller
warned that counterterrorism operations would be affected, with the possible
elimination of some joint terrorism task forces with state and local
police. Limited surveillance and slower response times would mean
unwatched targets and the possibility that individuals on terrorism
watch lists could gain entry to the U.S.

"FBI's ability to proactively penetrate and disrupt terrorist plans and
groups prior to an attack would be impacted,"Mueller wrote.

To Holder, the problem is simple. "If you don't have prosecutors and agents doing what we expect them to
do, and we won't if this thing actually takes place, we are going to be a
nation that is going to be less safe. And that is simple fact," Holder
said....

On Wednesday, Holder acknowledged that the Justice Department will do
what it can to avoid compromised security, while maintaining that
furloughs can't be avoided."...via Drudge

Even before he crapped on innocent Americans by dumping homeless, penniless aliens into their neighborhoods (and media sycophants said it wasn't his fault)Obama threatened cancer and death.He warned the entire world he'd personally increase
chances your plane will crash and willpersonally cause more people to
die of cancer. These acts of terror are courtesy of a non-existent GOP:

"Barack Obama is warning America of the
devastation that the sequester will visit upon the country,including
...that planes will fall from the sky:

“Air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks, which
means more delays at airports across the country,” Obama continued.
“Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. Tens of thousands
of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and
preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings.”"...

""Surely the president won't cut funds to first responders when just last
year Washington handed out an estimated$115 billion in payments to
individuals who weren't even eligible to receive them, or at a time when
11 different government agencies are funding 90 different green energy
programs," (Senator Mitch)McConnell said in a statement. "That would be a terrible and
entirely unnecessary choice by a President who claims to want bipartisan
reform.""...

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Ed. note: This most certainly is George Bush's fault.
He and his crowd destroyed the country, the GOP, lifetimes of work and
sacrifice, put the radical left in charge, and aren't the slightest bit sorry about it.

.Listeners to talk radio have heard callers in recent years who came to the US from repressive regimes, are stunned that America is turning into the kind of place they escaped fromand that no one cares.I heard this caller from Romania to Rush's show:

"RUSH: Here's Sarine in Hollywood. Sarine, it's great to have you on the program. Hello, sir....

CALLER: Rush, dittos, to start with. Mega, mega dittos. All the best to
you, my friend. This regime that is elected by the clueless and the
uninformed has come very, very close to -- and, in fact, crossed the
line of -- breaking the law by releasing these people out of prison
illegally like that. Something like this happened in the seventies in
Europe, and this is the reason why I'm so impressed with you that you're
so astute that you can understand details that people who have lived
here all their lives would have no access to.

They're being pounded with false information all this time. The
details are that nobody in their right mind ever tried to enter/cross
illegally and run into a communist country, but everybody try to escape.
What Ceausescu did in the early seventies is he gave the common thieves
and pickpockets and basic criminals that were in prison a choice. They
could take a passport to go to Western Europe or stay in prison. So, of
course, they chose to leave. That was everybody's dream, thieves or not.

CALLER: Thank you...Yeah, so the real purpose was to
create absolute havoc in the Western world,in Western Europe,for those
who tried to escape -- risking life and limb; crossing at night under
the hail of bullets; leaving family, possessions, memories, childhood
behind -- just escape and be free. They would ask for political asylum
in places like West Germany or France or Italy. The impression given by these criminals that were allowed emigrate freely was bad.

Of course, once they hit the streets and saw the naivete of the rich
world, which is what everybody looked at it as being, they started
pillaging there. The setup was such that the governments over there,
being faced with this kind of crime, would refuse the acceptance of the
people who risked their lives just to escape the moral crime that
communism is. So the fact that you mentioned the Marielitos[Castro's Mariel boat lift] and the
intent of creating havoc by releasing these people, it is so close in
reality and to the truth.

RUSH: I tell you, I'm finding myself in a difficult situation here,
because I know that certain words and phrases happen to turn people off
in this country. For example -- it's been this way a long time -- in
this country and in the media today, if you say to somebody, "That
person over there's a communist," you lose 'em. That doesn't work. So
you say, "Okay, socialist." Well, okay, that may make more impact. Call
'em a totalitarian or a statist, they still don't want to hear it.

But it's challenging because that's exactly what's happening. Barack Obama is employing tactics
that have been used by people like Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein,
and Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro released hundreds of thousands of just
the most horrible characters from his prisons and they infested south
Florida in the Mariel Boatlift -- and the same thing with Ceausescu and
releasing his prisoners. Not all of them are political. Some of them
were hardened criminals.

I mean, Ceausescu was trying to pollute Western Europe. He wasn't
sending a bunch of freedom fighters to Western Europe. He was polluting
it. Castro was trying to pollute south Florida. He was trying to corrupt
it, and the United States in general. Saddam Hussein was trying to
corrupt Iraq and Baghdad by letting his most hardened criminals go. It
was a punishment, a punishment to the citizens of Iraq for not
supporting him, for being complicit in the forthcoming US invasion....

What
happened in this country was the Mariel Boatlift -- and, of course, the nice, compassionate people of America welcomedthem in at first.
"They're escaping the dungeons of Fidel Castro! These are people seeking
freedom, and we are people of freedom." The same with Ceausescu's
release, and the same thing with Castro's and Saddam's. They end up
corrupting the places that they go, and that's the purpose of it.

Now, when you say that Obama is imitating the behavior of people like
that, my guess is that any low-information voters in the audience who
hear me say this are gonna pooh-pooh it and they're gonna start calling
me names: "Reactionary, controversial statements," whatever, "extremist
racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe," what have you. Because the
low-information voter looks at Obama as a prisoner himself of the
Republican Party. "Obama's doing everything he can to make life better!
He's trying to create jobs. He's trying to prevent the deficit from
growing. He said that no policy of his was gonna grow the deficit by a
dime and if it did, he wouldn't do it."...The media is only part of it. It's a big part of it, but it's not
the entire explanation. We've reached a point in our cultural evolution
where the clueless dominate, where low-information, uneducated, who think they know everything, by the way, dominate. I appreciate the
call."========================

Ed. note: This is happening because the GOP doesn't exist.Obama can do or say whatever he wants because no one will stop him. The Democrat party took control ofschools, media, and culture through Hollywood and television, then sat back and waited. Over timeyou can convince people of anything. 82% of Muslims in Egypt believe you should be stoned to death for adultery:

The officials blamed the Taliban, who they said had accused the women of "moral deviation and adultery"....The attack was only 300m from the governor's office in Ghazni city, which is on a list of places to be transferred to Afghan security control.

"A major investigation into an influential Afghan governor accused of taking bribes has been shut down and its top prosecutor transferred to a unit that doesn't handle corruption cases, Afghan and U.S. officials said. The closing of the investigation into the former governor of Kapisa province, Ghulam Qawis Abu Bakr, comes on the heels of a grim, unpublicized assessment by U.S. officials that no substantive corruption prosecutions were taking place in Afghanistan."...

"...the latest manifestation of a worldwide explosion of outrage at what historians may someday come to deem humanity's latest form of tyranny: the capture of states by criminal syndicates. Otherwise known as rampant public corruption."...

=====================
. Oleg ran to America from stagnant, depraved, Soviet Union but now findsAmerica has turned into the old USSR complete with 1-party rule

“At first the move to Americafrom the former USSR made me feel as though I had made a jump in time, from the stagnant depraved past into a distant dynamic future....Today I’m feeling like a time traveler again.

Only this time the productive, honest and self-reliant America is vanishing in the past….Deprived of free political speech, Soviets had developed a culture of underground political jokes. I used to remember thousands of them…..Americans had no first-hand knowledge of a totalitarian government,ideological uniformity, and shameless propaganda.But that is changing. The more America “progresses”back to the Soviet model, the more translatable the old Soviet jokes become….The six contradictions of socialism in the United States of America- America is capitalist and greedy – yet half of the population is subsidized.- Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims.- They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government.- Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer.-The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.- They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

There’s more where it came from – or where we’re going, whichever the case may be.”

"Non-Muslims are being asked to try wearing a hijab, a type of headscarf, for a day to find out more about why women wear them.

World Hijab Day calls on non-Muslim women to try out life underthe traditional head scarf.

Some people think women should not have to cover their hair or face and think it is unfair because men don't have to wear them. . But for many women around the world, it is an important show of their faith."...via Atlas Shrugs, photo from CBBC newsaround

"Tethered to the group’s congressional scorecard that was released this
week, PrimaryMyCongressman.com was set to go live Wednesday. It names
people in districts where Mitt Romney notched more than 60 percent in
the 2012 presidential race, but got a lifetime rating of below 70
percent from the Club.

For now, the members featuredon the website are

Rep. Mike Simpson
(R-Idaho),

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.),

Rep. Rick Crawford (R- Ark.),

Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.),

Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.),

Rep. Martha
Roby (R-Ala.),

Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.),

Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.)
and

Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.).

The Club plans to rotate in different
members in the future."...via Breitbart

"New US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has stirred
up a sudden storm in a chai glass here, with past suggestions that
India has been using Afghanistan as a "second front" against its old
rival Pakistan.

"India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan" in
Afghanistan, said Mr Hagel in a 2011 speech at the previously
little-known foreign policy seed-bed of Oklahoma University.

If nothing else, it showed what a liability the internet can
be for politicians who would wish for their past thoughts to be
forgotten.

For Mr Hagel's Republican opponents, it was just a few clicks' work to ferret out the speech, get it online via a sympathetic outlet, then picked up 10.5 time zones away....

There's another reason, though, why this little episode may be more
significant - because it highlights a bigger question over where
relations between Delhi and Washington are going.

The high hopes for a new era of relations after a nuclear deal have "simply not panned out", says Professor Bharat Karnad at the Centre for Policy Research....

It was former President George W Bush who got things going, ending
decades of often frosty relations between the world's two largest
democracies. And many see the end of his time in the White House as the
high water mark.

"Republicans are always better for India," says Mr Karnad. "They have a much better strategic sense than the Democrats."

In fact, Mr Obama seemed interested in moving things on in
his first term, but he seems to have other priorities in his second. And
India fears it has lost its best supporters, with Hillary Clinton
leaving the state department and Leon Panetta the Pentagon.

An Indian official admits "the jury is still out on Kerry and Hagel"."

There has always been a wing
of the GOP — the “establishment,” “Country Club,” or “Rockefeller”
Republicans — who care more about controlling the party than about
advancing liberty or even about winning elections. AEI’s Ken Green (a colleague of Hassett’s) hits the nail on the head. In a story on Shultz’s endorsement of carbon taxes, Green told Climatewire: (subscrip):

"Yes, that George Shultz,
President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State. But not everyone who
served with Reagan was a Reaganite. Reagan’s VP, G.H.W. Bush, famously
campaignedon a platform of “Read my lips: No New Taxes.” Not two years
later he raised taxes in a 1990 budget deal that torpedoed the economy
and sank his presidency.

Yesterday, in an interview puff piece penned
by two associates, Shultz, a distinguished fellow at Stanford
University’s Hoover Institution, called for a ‘revenue-neutral’ carbon
tax. This is unsurprising. As the article reminds us, in 2010, Shultz,
partnering with Tom Steyer, a Democrat, “led the successful campaign to
defeat Proposition 23, a California ballot initiative to suspend the
state’s ambitious law to curb greenhouse gases.”"...

"Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge registered
with the Department of Justice as a lobbyist for the government of
Albania nearly two years after winning an almost half-million dollar
lobbying contract,Roll Call reports this morning.(Hat tip GrassrootsPa)

"I didn't think it was [necessary] to register," the Capitol Hill
newspaper quotes the former Pennsylvania governor and national co-chair
of John McCain's presidential campaign as saying."It was brought to my attention after the contract expired and my
lawyer said under the circumstances I probably should have filed," Ridge
said.Ridge registered after he was contacted by the Justice Department."

"The (American Action)Network has focused mainly on helping the GOP win House races,
but Malek pointed out that his group had also run ads in some Senate
primaries: The group ran ads to help Kelly Ayotte, who won in New
Hampshire, and Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, who lost his primary battle
to conservative darling Richard Mourdock, who went on to lose in
November.

“I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again in the future if we saw the need,” Malek said."

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4/19/12, "Senate Races 2012: Republican Establishment Tries To Tamp Down Tea Party Insurgency," Huffington Post, Paul Blumenthal"Last week, the American Action Network, a conservative group with ties
to the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., launched a campaign of
negative ads against Mourdock, costing $590,000. Major donors, including
former fundraisers for President George W. Bush and McCain, are putting
money into pro-Lugar super PACs."...-------------------------------------------

"The American Action Network was formed in February 2010
by Norm Coleman, a former Republican senator from Minnesota, and
Rob Collins, a former chief of staff to House Minority Whip Eric Cantor....Prominent board members of the network also include Mississippi Gov.
Haley Barbour, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Ed Gillespie, a former
chairman of the Republican National Committee."...-------------------------------------------Tom Ridge and his friends represent K Street.

Tom Ridge on MSNBC in 2010 said Obama should go all out with his green agendaby first going big into nuclear power. Viewers were not told Ridge was a paid member of Exelon's executive board,Exelon being the largest nuclearco. in the US:

"President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown,
Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic
crisis. A few hours later, the state's former governor, Tom Ridge, was
on MSNBC's HardballWith Chris Matthews, offering up his
own recovery plan. There were "modest things" the White House might try,
like cutting taxes or opening up credit for small businesses, but the
real answer was for the president to "take his green agenda and blow it
out of the box." The first step, Ridge explained, was to "create nuclear
power plants." Combined with some waste coal and natural gas
extraction, you would have an "innovation setter" that would "create
jobs, create exports."

As Ridge counseled the administration to "put that package together," he sure seemed like an objective commentator. But what viewers weren't told was
that since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation
for serving on the board of Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power
company. As of March 2009, he also held an estimated $248,299 in Exelon
stock, according to SEC filings."...

seemed
like an objective commentator. But what viewers weren't told was that
since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for
serving on the board of Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power
company. As of March 2009, he also held an estimated $248,299 in Exelon
stock, according to SEC filings. - See more at:
http://www.thenation.com/article/media-lobbying-complex#sthash.s2OsUcVm.dpuf

President
Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting
with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours
later, the state's former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC's HardballWith Chris Matthews,
offering up his own recovery plan. There were "modest things" the White
House might try, like cutting taxes or opening up credit for small
businesses, but the real answer was for the president to "take his green
agenda and blow it out of the box." The first step, Ridge explained,
was to "create nuclear power plants." Combined with some waste coal and
natural gas extraction, you would have an "innovation setter" that would
"create jobs, create exports." - See more at:
http://www.thenation.com/article/media-lobbying-complex#sthash.s2OsUcVm.dpuf

========================== (Ed. note: Since the article below was written one or more of Ridge's lobbying assignments may have changed. His own firm "Ridge Global" appears to still be in business.)

"Tom Ridge, on the Thursday, June 9 edition of the Colbert Report, claimed he is "not a lobbyist." A quick glance at his resume shows that nothing could be further from the truth.
Ridge, now 65 years-old, has worn multiple hats throughout his extensive political career.
Among them: first-ever head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Bush Administration
from 2003-2005, former Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995-2001, and
former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from from
1983-1995.

“Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster thanwhat President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord.… Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …It is exactly America’s historical role of biggest and dirtiest that makes their sharp decline in CO2 pollution so noteworthy